Megadeth's run of thrash classics from the mid eighties through to the
nineties continue to be celebrated in the metal community long after
leader Dave Mustaine's band mates have been discarded to the sands of
time-save one, Dave "Jr" Ellefson. Along the way there's Mustaine's
pathology with his ex-friends in Metallica but also a hell of a lot of
killer metal as the band works its way up through Peace Sells and So
Far, So Good... So What! through to the superlative metal classics,
namely Rust In Peace and Countdown To Extinction. Later came Cryptic
Writings and Risk that threatened to kill the band but the
reconstitution of Megadeth after its demoralising decline and then
deflating dispersal at the destructive hand of Mustaine is a story
untold... until now. But it's a tale worth telling for its
instructiveness on how to rebuild and maintain a career. Quite simply
the recent Megadeth story spanning the albums The World Needs A Hero
through to Super Collider includes some of the beast and heaviest
Megadeth ever committed to record. Celebrate Mustaine's vision
track-by-track with top author Martin Popoff. With over sixty books to
his name, Popoff applies his tried and tested methodology to a
head-crunching canon of work that is truly as strong at the recent end
of the spectrum as it is with the classics you all know and love.
